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...Communist Viet Minh and their French-educated leader Ho Chi Minh. By 1954, with Viet Minh control spreading across the countryside, the French chose the valley of Dien Bien Phu to make a decisive stand aimed at checking the Communists. Instead, the one set-piece battle of the seven-year Indochina war led to the slaughter of 1,500 Frenchmen and, at home, to the loss of political will to continue the campaign. To General Vo Nguyen Giap, the commander of the attacking forces, who is now 71, the Viet Minh victory was "the toll of a bell heralding...
...Mitterrand, the eight-day visit came as a welcome break from headaches at home. Nearly three years into his seven-year term, he is the least popular French President in a quarter-century, with an approval rating in opinion polls of only 32%. Inflation chugs along at 9%, while unemployment, which stood at 6.4% when Mitterrand took office, is now 9.3%, leaving more than 2.1 million Frenchmen jobless. Over the past few months, Mitterrand has been bedeviled by protest marches and strikes by groups ranging from truckers to coal miners to civil servants...
Cesaire entered the world of politics after a seven-year visit to Haiti, which he felt demonstrated the possibility of Caribbean independence. In 1945 he was elected Martinique's Deputy to the National Assembly in Paris to form the constitution of the Fourth Republic. His collections of poetry during this period, published as Solar Throat Slashed (Soleil Cou Coupe). The Miraculous Weapons and Lost Body combine his surrealistic style and a growing violence in his verse...
...Johnson's appointment also brought allegations of poor management during his seven-year tenure as head of the district. A considerable group of supporters blame these problems on budget cutback. Johnson speculates that "some-one is obviously trying...
...looks like an offspring of E.T. and R2-D2 that might start walking. But the fuss is also about Apple, the company that likes to say it invented the personal computer. If Apple is to beat back IBM and continue the whirlwind progress that has taken it on a seven-year ride from manufacturing in a California garage to annual sales of $1 billion, Macintosh must be a triumph...